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THOMAS L. Rssnsrna AND c IARLEs L. REGESTER, or srsnmuc, ILLINOIS,

AssIoNoRs-To DENNY a STEVENS.-

AUTQMATIC WATERING-TROUG H.

.EiPEOIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 533,558, dated February 5, 18 95. Application filed July 26,189l. Serial No. 518,656. (No model.)

To all whom 12mg concern.-

Be it known that we, THOMAS L. REGESTER and Gnannns L. Rsonsrna, citizens of the United States, residing at Sterling, in the countyolWVhiteside and State oflllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic lVaterin-g-Troughs; and

we do declare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as I0 will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention consists in certain improvements in that class of watering troughsin whic a heat suspended upon the water in a float chamber communicating with the into :0 rior of the trough, is'employed to open and close an inlet valve as the height of the water in the trough may determine, and thus to admit more water to the trough when the water in the latter is depleted to, or below-a certain 2 5 predeterminedaltitude, and to close the valve and shut 0d the ingress of the water to the trough when the latter hasbeeu sutficiently filled. For this purpose we employ aval've plate seated against the inner wall of the float c chamber, having a diagonal valve seat placed upon itsouter surface and projected a short distance through the side of said chamber; also a valve placed on the outer side of the trough in position 5 seat partlyby its own gravity and partly by 'the pressure of the water in the inlet pipe. W'e also provide said valve with a horizontal stem projecting inwardly through the valve seat to nearly or quite the plane of the inner 4o surface of the wall of said floatchamber, and fulcrum horizontally abell crank lever, above said valve opening, on said valve plate, in a position to press outwardly on said stem and open said valve against the pressure of the 5 Tater in said inlet pipe, when the float attached to said lever shall have descended to or below a certain altitude, and thereby admit the water into said chamber and trough until the rising of said float shall withdraw said lever from said stern, and permit the seating of said valve, and thereby suspend to seat itself on said valve thefurther admission of water to said trough" until the next descent of said float.

, The foregoing devices are. illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-'- Figure 1 is a perspective of a trough con-. taining our invention. Ifig. 2 is a vertical cross section through a portion of the iioat. chamber exhibiting the location and interrelation of the parts employed in regulating the admission of the water. Fig. is adetaii of the valve and the valve plate referred to.

- Similarlcttcrs refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

'A is the entire trough which is subdivided i into the end compartments B. B. and the central float chamber 0, the latter having con]- rnunioation with each of the watering chambers B through suitable openings in its side walls, at or near-the bottom of the latter. .yc

D is a shorttube provided with threaded exteriors E and thereby adapted to be screwed" into an inlet pipe so as to form a continuation thereof, or into .the wall of a water reservoir, andpcrform the double function of admitting the water and assisting to sustain the trough. The outer end of the tube D is provided with the annular flange F and by means of bolts G passing through said flange, said tube D is attached to the trouglnA. Between the fiangeF and the side of the trough A, there is interposed a gasket H having a central opening somewhat larger than that of the tube 1), in which opening there is suspended, in position to swing into the mouth of the opening of tube D, the valveJ. To the inner surface of the valve J, there is, about centrally, attached the horizontal stem K, which projects through the wall of the trough A and through a valve seat M. attached to the inner 0 side of the wall of the trough, and extends into the adjacent end of the tube D.

L is the valve plate provided with the valve seat M before referred to, which seat is of an oblique formation, the surface upon which the 5 valveJ rests being diagonal to a vertical plane and longer at its lower side than at its upper one, whereby the valve J closes by its own gravity upon said seat, and whereby also, less resistance from the outer water is experienced zoo than if said valve seat were in a vertical plane.

The valve plate L, washer N, and gasliet 1:1 are all attached to the side of the trough by means of transverse bolts G, and to more of fectunlly seal the valve plate 'L', there is in terposed between'it and theinner side of the trough A, a leather Washer N. On the inner surface of the valve plate L and a suitable distance above the opening of the valve seat M there are formed two ears 0. 0. between Whichthere is fulerumed at its angle, the float lever P in a substentiellyhorizontal position. The shorter arm R of lover 1 projects downward from the pivotal point of said lever, in position to engage the valve stem K. To the inner end of-the lever 1? there is suitably attached the host By melting the valve seat H of such a length that the outeror inclined portion will be sub stantiully even with the outersurfiaoeof the side lot the trough, the valve portion J ofthe gasket ll Will normally rest upon the end of the valve sentwithin the tube D,- thereby making very compact construction and utilizing the gasket for making a closejoint be. tween the flange of the tube Diand as a support for the valve J, and by providing thein ner lace oi the valve plate L withjlae lugs O, the parts are all secured together by the bolts which pass through the flanges and the side of-the trough.

The operation of our invention is as fol lowsz-The water in the trough being below its normel'or required altitude, and the float S correspondingly depressed, theshort arm R of the lever R by pressure against the inner end ofthe valve stem K, J outwardly fromits sent M and permit the in-' flow of the water, through tube D into trough A,the Water freely passing from the valve chamber (3 into nients B. B. and watering compartments B. B. has risen andrarried the float S to 2,

end watering .pomPart;

' altiiudethe' arniB of lever P will be thereby the plate,

Vhen the weter in chamber 0.

predetermined by its own gravity, supplemented by the pnessure of the waterin the tube 1), will close upon its seat, and intermit the flow of water into trough A until the float S,rby reason of the depletion ot water in said trough, shall again descend. It will benoticed that the valve and its seat are inclosed, by the valve plate L, into the mouth of the tube Dead therefore protected from casual injury.

What we claim us our invention, and to secure by Letters Patent ot' the United States, is-

' In an automatic Watering trough, provided with a valve compartment and 2t water compertinent communicziting with each other, ot

valve compartment, a gasket between the desire flange of the tubeand the side of the trough, V

the. central portion of the gasket being proided with a. valve, a plate secnred to the inner side of the trough and provided withn valve sent which projects through the side of the trough and has its outer eudinclined'and substantially even 'with' the outersurface of thetrough, where-byit is normally closed by the valve,a. vnlve'stem securedt'o the vilve and projecting through the valve seat, a lever pivotallyseoured to the inner surface of the inner end of the'valve stem, and the opposite end. is provided with a float, and bolts through theplete and the fiangeof the inlet 'tube for"securing the parts together and to v v ]i3li6,-Sld6 of the trough, substantially as set. will raisethe velveforth. 5

one end of which bears against In' testimony whereof we affix oursigne to res in presence oft'vvowitnesses.

THOMAS L. REGEs'lER. CHARLES 'L. RE ll-ES'JZERw Witnesses.

J OHN G. LLQTAHAN,

ELIAS J. Lu Fnvnn. 

